Hush, Hush: Chapter 26 (Part 2)
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zelda_queenZeldaQueen: Well, this is it! Part two of this horrible, horrible chapter. I have no idea what was running through Fitzpatrick's head when she wrote this. Maybe she noticed that the last few chapters weren't creepy enough and she needed to resolve that. I don't know. Let's just get this over and done with
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Chapter 26 (Part 2)
When they leave the theater, Patch actually grabs Nora's arm and yoinks her into the ladies' room. He locks the door, and I have to ask Fitzpatrick, have you ever been in a movie theater bathroom? Because none of the ones I've seen work like that. You have the door to the bathroom, which has no lock, and then there are the individual stalls, which do. You know why this is? Because there are lots of people who need to use the bathroom in public places like movie theaters and just letting them in one at a time is Bad Planning. Between this and the two-screen bit, I'm wondering if you've ever been in a movie theater at all, Fitzpatrick.
Moving on from that, I'd like to ask the viewers to keep in mind that yet again, Nora has allowed Patch to manipulate her into being trapped in a confined space with him, with no means of contacting help, while he is clearly freaking her out. Don't you just love it when a character fails to learn anything at all? Although given what's going to transpire, I'm starting to think that Ms Fitzpatrick just imagines being locked in close quarters with Patch is Sexy Fun Times.
Patch stares at Nora and it honest to God sounds like he's going to hit her. We're told that his eyes "showed every sign of wanting to rattle [her] to death" and THIS IS NOT FUNNY FITZPATRICK, DID YOU THINK IT WAS? No, it's not! And it's not sexy or hot that Nora is frightened of him! And frightened she assuredly is! People who are not frightened do not back against a counter and cling to it, as Nora does!
And this next bit of idiocy must be seen to be believed
"'You're mad because I didn't go to Delphic.' I raised one shaky shoulder. 'Why Delphic, Patch? It's Sunday night. Delphic will be closing soon. Any special reason you wanted me to drive to a dark, soon to- be deserted amusement park?'"
ZeldaQueen: Gee Nora, you were told he wants to kill you, and then he asks you to wait for him at an isolated place. WHY DO YOU THINK HE ASKED YOU TO GO THERE! And I refuse to believe that she's trying to lead him with the questions, because that would imply that she seriously believes he would kill her and that MAKES IT ALL THE MORE STUPID THAT SHE'S LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH HIM AND ISN'T TRYING TO CLAW HER WAY OUT!!!
Although Nora does raise a good question. Yes Patch, why Delphic? You claim you don't want to hurt her. So why there? We never get an answer for that, just like Fitzpatrick has continued to conveniently ignore any questions from her fans about why exactly Patch faked his Jeep breaking down and getting Nora in the motel room.
Patch starts walking towards Nora and is all up in her business, and I'm dead serious, this is just a complete dominance bit with him terrifying her into submission. He tells her that the killing thing is true, but "It has to be an intentional sacrifice. Simply killing you won't do it".
Okay, Fitzpatrick? That is not in the least bit reassuring. Because remember how you've had Nora yammer on about why he hasn't killed her yet if he wanted to? There's a great reason why. He's working at breaking down her will and inducing Stockholm Syndrome and getting her to sympathize with him so he can manipulate her into willingly sacrificing herself. Spoilers for Crescendo - all Nora does in that book is wangst about how it isn't fair that Patch doesn't have a human body and how she wishes he did and how he totally deserves one. It honestly sounds like he's grooming her to willingly kill herself for him. I'm not saying any more on that, for fear of ruining the climax.
Oh, and even better (worse?), Fitzpatrick has told her fans that Patch knows human personalities to a T. That he understands human nature inside and out. Which, besides reminding me unpleasantly of Edward Cullen, just sounds like he knows all about people...so he's really great at manipulating them to do what he wants. Which makes his stalking and threatening of Nora, his pseudo-rape of her before, and my theory up above all come out into one neat bundle of Do Not Want. I don't suppose Fitzpatrick thought of that, though. In fact, I don't suppose she thought at all.
No, clearly she didn't. We instead move on to Nora asking Patch about the girl he fell for, and "I hated myself for experiencing irrational pangs of jealousy. This wasn't supposed to be about me. This was supposed to be an interrogation". How about you slap some sense into yourself, Nora? Because if you're about to possibly be killed by some guy and you're more worried that he dated someone before you, your problem is that you're an idiot, not that you're self-centered.
Oh, but she doesn't have to worry. The girl grew old and died, so there's no more competition! *head desk* And Nora's response to Patch telling her this?
"'That must have been hard for you,' I snapped"
ZeldaQueen: You know, I've ranted about how Patch's backstory is just sloppy and stupid and in no way an excuse for his treatment of Nora. If I thought Nora was saying that to call him out on it, hey, go her. But I've read Crescendo, and I know that she's just pissed because Nora is a stupid, selfish bitch who throws tantrums at the slightest hint that Patch liked anyone before or other than her.So I still am unimpressed.
Patch promises to come clean, and I snort derisively at this because he already told her that he'd answer her questions and has proven by now that he's quite fine with continuing to hide things from her. He also says that he was worse in the past than he is now, which is damned terrifying. He tells Nora about his fall and how he didn't know about only possessing people during Chesvan and had his wings ripped of for his troubles, and it's all boring and rushed. It's also angsty as fuck, probably because Fitzpatrick seems under the impression that she can get us to ignore and excuse his sexual harassment and violent behavior if he has some angsty backstory to make him a woobie. It doesn't work, Fitzpatrick. Please stop. Now. He concludes with the line "But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you", and I can just hear the idiot fangirls sighing at that one.
He then tells Nora that she's from a Nephilim on her dad's side, but when she asks him where her immortal ancestor is, he conveniently does not tell her. This most likely is because, as we'll see, he's an irresponsible idiot who can't keep track of his vassal.
Patch starts crowding up against Nora, so that "His boots were flush with the toes of my tennis shoes" which, besides being a rather...interesting description (seriously, does anyone use the term "flush" like that?), sounds almost exactly like the scene where he was pinning her to the wall in the motel room. And Fitzpatrick is clearly setting up for some softcorn porn thing
ZeldaQueen: So Patch keeps leaning in and Nora keeps backing away and I keep reeling in horror. Patch tells her "I'm not going to kill you, Nora. I don't kill people who are important to me. And you top the list"
*raises eyebrow*
First of all, implying what? That if people don't matter to you, you don't give a damn if they die? Given how you treat Vee in this book and Crescendo, Patchy-boy, I believe that.
Second of all, so it's only that Nora is in his good graces that's keeping him from killing her. Isn't that fan-fucking-tastic? Nothing gives me the warm fuzzies like seeing a couple where the woman is completely dependant on the good favor of the man to survive! And before anyone tells me that I'm misintepreting a joke, I would like to assure you that no, I am not. A later chapter is going to pretty much outright say that he was lined up to kill her until he fell in love with her!
Third of all, a guy who is only compelled to not kill someone by how much he likes them and not because murder is wrong. Yeeeees, that sounds like just the right sort of person for Heaven to bring back as a guardian angel.
Fourth of all, Patch has no compunctions at all about murdering his vassal, who he forces to give him the gift of a physical body. Meaning that Patch has been dragging this poor guy around for centuries, using him as a resource for the thing that Patch wants the most, and Patch doesn't hold him in any regard at all. You know, I'll be ranting about this in the later books, but I shall say this - Fitzpatrick, if you seriously think that I'm going to sympathize with Patch over the Nephilim, you are whacked out of your skull.
Fifth of all (and my, this just keeps going on and on, doesn't it?), don't even try to sell me that "You're the most important person to me" bullshit. Don't even. You've already proven that you're fine with treating her like shit. If you want to impress upon us your love for her, Patch, why not start now and back up a few steps like she's asking you to? Or stop stalking her? Or treat her with respect, instead of spewing crude innuendos every other sentence? And if anyone tells me that those things are a part of his charm or that Nora secretly likes him doing those things to her, I will reach through the computer and bitchslap them, I swear to God.
Well, that rant aside, back to sexy time! Where are we? Ah yes, Nora is trying to push Patch away, because his presence upsets her. What, you don't believe me? Here, see for yourself!
"My hands were pressed against his stomach, which was so hard even his skin didn't give. I was keeping a pointless safeguard between us, since not even a towering electrical fence would make me feel secure from him"
ZeldaQueen: Ah yes, you know it's love when he makes you feel like you're in danger.
*a la Gilbert Godfrey* YOU IDIOTS!
Nora tries to get him to back off by telling him "You're impinging on my private space", and he is an asshole and mocks her because, ha ha, she knows big words, isn't it funny? And then... OH JESUS CHRIST, YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS IN FULL!
"I tucked a few stray hairs behind my ears and took one sizable stepsideways, skirting the sink. 'You're crowding me. I need- room.' What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn't be trusted in Patch's presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet ... I wasn't. I tried convincing myself I was staying because I needed answers, but that was only part of it. It was the other part I didn't want to think about. The emotional part. The part that was pointless fighting.
'Are you keeping anything else from me?" I wanted to know.
'I'm keeping a lot of things from you.'
My insides took a steep dive.
'Like?'
'Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you.' Patch braced one hand against the mirror behind me, his weight tipping toward me. 'You have no idea what you do to me'"
ZeldaQueen: Two things there.
First of all, how many times are we going to have Nora repeat how Patch makes her feel so weak and vulnerable and she just feels soloose powerless and amoral around him? Yes, I know such things can be written to be kinky, but guess what? It's creepy as fuck if you have your female go on about how weak she feels around the male lead, while said male lead does absolutely nothing but enforce his dominance over her and remind her of how easily he can overpower her.
Second of all, read that bit. Take a good, long gawk. When you're done, tell me what that reminds you of.
Where else have we seen Nora say that she ought to be running away, but feels powerless to resist the allure of Patch?
Where else have we seen Patch push her up against a wall and refuse to back up or give her room, despite her clear requests otherwise?
Where else have we seen Nora desperately try to question Patch, only for him to just give her not-answers consisting of extremely inappropriate sexual banter?
*taps chin*
HOW ABOUT CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHAPTER WHERE PATCH ASSAULTS NORA???
Yeah! Look familiar? That chapter that ought to have been grounds for Patch to be arrested? And yet here we get pretty much the same thing, and it's supposed to be hot and sexy and a sign of their progressing relationship!!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FITZPATRICK, SEEK THERAPY!!!
I am so very, very tired right now.
And it just. Does not. End! Nora starts gasping and telling him that she needs room. He's all smiles and of course does not do this, because "There's all kinds of right...On the spectrum, we're still in the safe zone". DOES THE PHRASE "NO MEANS NO" MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU, JACKASS?
No, clearly it doesn't! Because even though Nora is trying to get away from him and keeps telling him "I don't want this", he keeps telling her it's perfectly fine, and to relax, and geeeeeehhhhh this is creepy!
At this point, Nora spies a fire alarm and gives serious thought to pulling it. A note to all people reading this - if you ever feel the need to resort to pulling a fire alarm to get someone to stop pawing you up, don't date that person. In any case, Patch figures out what Nora has in mind and tells her not to think about it. She does run for the fire alarm and pulls it, only for it not to move. Oh, surprise! Patch just mindraped her into thinking she did it! How lovely that he has her on such a leash!
Seriously, what was the point of that? That was just like him waving that paintball gun at her! It served no point but to freak her out and show her how powerless she is against him! He could easily have backed away and given her room and, you know, not have caused her to feel so threatened that she seriously considered running for help! Oh no, I forgot, that would mess up his street cred and make him less of a bad boy, respecting his girlfriend's wishes like that. Christ, I hate this book.
Nora shoves Patch and yells at him for the mindrape and while I would applaud this display of sense, it's ruined because she basically words it as "That bastard, how dare he be so hot and get me all horny for him?" In other words, it's just the usual cutesy, fake anger used to show how she has fallen for him, because of course "no" means "yes" and all girls secretly want guys to take advantage of them. *flips the bird*
*reads ahead* *stares* Jesus. Fucking. Christ
"I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it.
'Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me.' His eyes held a lot of depth. 'And I've got it bad for you.' He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my will power to break away"
ZeldaQueen: . . .
He...he just pinned her against the wall and violated her personal space exactly like how he attacked her in the motel.
He outright declared that she was in love with him, without her consent or opinion on the matter.
He kissed her right after she had been dodging him and asking him for room and yelling at him and trying to pull the fire alarm for help. And she is just standing there passively, basically saying that her will is being broken by him and she's lucky she can stop him from kissing her.
Spite fic! Short one!
"As soon as we broke apart, I reached into my pocket. The vial was there, right where I left it after I filched it during my last Biology lab. With Patch stalking me like he was and the police not taking me seriously, I had suspected I'd need a safeguard like this. With one swift movement, I popped the top off of the vial and flung the contents at Patch's face.
'YOU BITCH!' he screamed as he clawed at his eyes and then for me.
I was already toward the door though, taking advantage of his blindness and disorientation. Sulfuric acid. Don't leave home without it"
ZeldaQueen: And yes, I got the idea from To Weave a Lover. I'm pissed and want Patch to die, cut me a break.
No, Nora of course doesn't end up doing anything else to assert herself against Patch, or call him out about that disgusting behavior, or try to escape in any way. Instead, she asked what went down with Dabria. Patch says that he ripped off her wings, which he explains was going to happen to her no matter what. If she tried to go back to Heaven, the avenging angels would have done it to her. If she had continued to wander on Earth, another fallen angel would have done it instead. Nora asks if that's all he did and...oh this is precious, it is. He saw that Dabria has been driven insane by her time on Earth and has ripped off her wings, leaving her undoubtedly pissed as heck, with a personal grudge against Nora, and non of the scruples angels apparently have about using their powers against mortals. And he just let her go, and openly admits that she'll probably show up to attack Nora again. But it's okay! Why?
"'You could take her, Angel,' he said. 'I've seen both of you in action, and my bet's on you. You don't need me for that'"
ZeldaQueen: Yes Patch, you've seen Nora in action, if by that you mean her hiding in her closet, resorting to throwing shoes to ward Dabria off. Shame you missed the rest of the fight, or you'd have seen Dabria blow parts of the house up and set rooms on fire, all while Nora only survives by the skin of her teeth. So yes, I'm sure Nora can totally take a psychotic fallen angel who can mindrape and physically overpower her, who hates her guts, and who can stalk her for all eternity without fear of reprecussion. I'm sure Nora will be fine. After all, she does so well at fending off Patch.
Also, I must ask, what are the angels doing about this? You know, the ones in charge? They just lost their Angel of Death, you know. Aren't they going to, you know, look into it? And if they do, aren't they going to see that a lot of this was Patch's fault, given that he seduced Dabria and used her, which got her to try to win him back? Fitzpatrick has openly admitted that the angels are not happy at all with Patch and are watching for him to do the slightest thing to excuse them sending him to Hell. Isn't corrupting and screwing with the Angel of Death enough to warrant that? Even if one argue that it was Dabria's own fault (as I'm sure folks would), couldn't the angels still argue that Patch is too much trouble to keep around or try to recruit back? Clearly he isn't interested in taking them up on their offer and still wants to be human!
*sigh* So Nora goes into Full Horny Mode and she and Patch start making out. But first, Patch tells delivers a truly terrifying line "'Door's locked,' he said. 'And we have unfinished business'"
ZeldaQueen: Mmm. Sexy.
So they go into full-on make-out mode, with Patch grabbing her hips (because I guess Fitzpatrick thinks that's sexy) and Nora wrapping her legs around his waist, and I'm just skipping it because it's sickening and horrible. Thankfully it doesn't last long. Nora's cell phone rings and she ignores Patch telling her to let it go to voice mail. She has literally forgotten about everything that was going on before she started making out with Patch, and answers the phone thining how "Internally I was screaming with joy". And I'd like to just say that if Fitzpatrick hadn't written this as incredibly squicky as she did, my immediate interpretation of that quote would not have been that Nora was secretly overjoyed for an excuse to break away from Patch.
Anyway, when she answers, it's Vee. Hooo boy. Apparently Vee is still with Elliot and Jules and they've...um...broken into the high school to play hide and seek. Or actually they want to play hide and seek in the high school, but they've broken in and only now realized that it's rather stupid playing with three people, especially since they apparently want teams. So Vee is calling to ask if Nora would care to join them.
Um, folks, I'm kind of baffled at this one. Is high school hide and seek something that a lot of people do? I understand the appeal of playing around inside of a roped-off area or an abandoned building or something, but this is the high school. They spend all week there. It's not even like it's closed for the summer. It's just the weekend. Why would they want to break into there, of all places?
Not to mention that if it's a weekend, wouldn't there be someone there? At my high school, unless it was midnight, there was usually at least one person around. Janitors cleaning up. Teachers grading stuff or finishing something. Band practice. Something! The teachers even told our parents that the students couldn't pull the "I can't do my homework because I left my book at school" excuse because there would almost always be someone to let us in to get our stuff. I can buy that this high school doesn't have club meetings or something, but there aren't even janitors? Really?
And you would think that Vee would think about them not having enough people to play a proper game of hide and seek before they committed breaking in and entering, so that if they couldn't go through with the game, they wouldn't worry about potentially being arrested. Vee is an idiot.
So yeah. Vee says that Elliot has something to add, and hands the phone off to him. Elliot gets on the line and basically tells Nora that if she doesn't come to the high school, he's going to hang Vee. Which, you know, is what he did to his girlfriend. You'd think he'd come up with a less conspicious method, considering that he already was a suspect in one hanging, but whatever. This dude isn't very subtle, if any of you haven't noticed. God almighty. I hate this chapter. This is just one long string of squick, and I want it to die. I am so angry, I need to go and unwind. Have a good night! I'm off to go bang my head against the wall!
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Chapter 26 (Part 2)
When they leave the theater, Patch actually grabs Nora's arm and yoinks her into the ladies' room. He locks the door, and I have to ask Fitzpatrick, have you ever been in a movie theater bathroom? Because none of the ones I've seen work like that. You have the door to the bathroom, which has no lock, and then there are the individual stalls, which do. You know why this is? Because there are lots of people who need to use the bathroom in public places like movie theaters and just letting them in one at a time is Bad Planning. Between this and the two-screen bit, I'm wondering if you've ever been in a movie theater at all, Fitzpatrick.
Moving on from that, I'd like to ask the viewers to keep in mind that yet again, Nora has allowed Patch to manipulate her into being trapped in a confined space with him, with no means of contacting help, while he is clearly freaking her out. Don't you just love it when a character fails to learn anything at all? Although given what's going to transpire, I'm starting to think that Ms Fitzpatrick just imagines being locked in close quarters with Patch is Sexy Fun Times.
Patch stares at Nora and it honest to God sounds like he's going to hit her. We're told that his eyes "showed every sign of wanting to rattle [her] to death" and THIS IS NOT FUNNY FITZPATRICK, DID YOU THINK IT WAS? No, it's not! And it's not sexy or hot that Nora is frightened of him! And frightened she assuredly is! People who are not frightened do not back against a counter and cling to it, as Nora does!
And this next bit of idiocy must be seen to be believed
"'You're mad because I didn't go to Delphic.' I raised one shaky shoulder. 'Why Delphic, Patch? It's Sunday night. Delphic will be closing soon. Any special reason you wanted me to drive to a dark, soon to- be deserted amusement park?'"
ZeldaQueen: Gee Nora, you were told he wants to kill you, and then he asks you to wait for him at an isolated place. WHY DO YOU THINK HE ASKED YOU TO GO THERE! And I refuse to believe that she's trying to lead him with the questions, because that would imply that she seriously believes he would kill her and that MAKES IT ALL THE MORE STUPID THAT SHE'S LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH HIM AND ISN'T TRYING TO CLAW HER WAY OUT!!!
Although Nora does raise a good question. Yes Patch, why Delphic? You claim you don't want to hurt her. So why there? We never get an answer for that, just like Fitzpatrick has continued to conveniently ignore any questions from her fans about why exactly Patch faked his Jeep breaking down and getting Nora in the motel room.
Patch starts walking towards Nora and is all up in her business, and I'm dead serious, this is just a complete dominance bit with him terrifying her into submission. He tells her that the killing thing is true, but "It has to be an intentional sacrifice. Simply killing you won't do it".
Okay, Fitzpatrick? That is not in the least bit reassuring. Because remember how you've had Nora yammer on about why he hasn't killed her yet if he wanted to? There's a great reason why. He's working at breaking down her will and inducing Stockholm Syndrome and getting her to sympathize with him so he can manipulate her into willingly sacrificing herself. Spoilers for Crescendo - all Nora does in that book is wangst about how it isn't fair that Patch doesn't have a human body and how she wishes he did and how he totally deserves one. It honestly sounds like he's grooming her to willingly kill herself for him. I'm not saying any more on that, for fear of ruining the climax.
Oh, and even better (worse?), Fitzpatrick has told her fans that Patch knows human personalities to a T. That he understands human nature inside and out. Which, besides reminding me unpleasantly of Edward Cullen, just sounds like he knows all about people...so he's really great at manipulating them to do what he wants. Which makes his stalking and threatening of Nora, his pseudo-rape of her before, and my theory up above all come out into one neat bundle of Do Not Want. I don't suppose Fitzpatrick thought of that, though. In fact, I don't suppose she thought at all.
No, clearly she didn't. We instead move on to Nora asking Patch about the girl he fell for, and "I hated myself for experiencing irrational pangs of jealousy. This wasn't supposed to be about me. This was supposed to be an interrogation". How about you slap some sense into yourself, Nora? Because if you're about to possibly be killed by some guy and you're more worried that he dated someone before you, your problem is that you're an idiot, not that you're self-centered.
Oh, but she doesn't have to worry. The girl grew old and died, so there's no more competition! *head desk* And Nora's response to Patch telling her this?
"'That must have been hard for you,' I snapped"
ZeldaQueen: You know, I've ranted about how Patch's backstory is just sloppy and stupid and in no way an excuse for his treatment of Nora. If I thought Nora was saying that to call him out on it, hey, go her. But I've read Crescendo, and I know that she's just pissed because Nora is a stupid, selfish bitch who throws tantrums at the slightest hint that Patch liked anyone before or other than her.So I still am unimpressed.
Patch promises to come clean, and I snort derisively at this because he already told her that he'd answer her questions and has proven by now that he's quite fine with continuing to hide things from her. He also says that he was worse in the past than he is now, which is damned terrifying. He tells Nora about his fall and how he didn't know about only possessing people during Chesvan and had his wings ripped of for his troubles, and it's all boring and rushed. It's also angsty as fuck, probably because Fitzpatrick seems under the impression that she can get us to ignore and excuse his sexual harassment and violent behavior if he has some angsty backstory to make him a woobie. It doesn't work, Fitzpatrick. Please stop. Now. He concludes with the line "But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you", and I can just hear the idiot fangirls sighing at that one.
He then tells Nora that she's from a Nephilim on her dad's side, but when she asks him where her immortal ancestor is, he conveniently does not tell her. This most likely is because, as we'll see, he's an irresponsible idiot who can't keep track of his vassal.
Patch starts crowding up against Nora, so that "His boots were flush with the toes of my tennis shoes" which, besides being a rather...interesting description (seriously, does anyone use the term "flush" like that?), sounds almost exactly like the scene where he was pinning her to the wall in the motel room. And Fitzpatrick is clearly setting up for some softcorn porn thing
ZeldaQueen: So Patch keeps leaning in and Nora keeps backing away and I keep reeling in horror. Patch tells her "I'm not going to kill you, Nora. I don't kill people who are important to me. And you top the list"
*raises eyebrow*
First of all, implying what? That if people don't matter to you, you don't give a damn if they die? Given how you treat Vee in this book and Crescendo, Patchy-boy, I believe that.
Second of all, so it's only that Nora is in his good graces that's keeping him from killing her. Isn't that fan-fucking-tastic? Nothing gives me the warm fuzzies like seeing a couple where the woman is completely dependant on the good favor of the man to survive! And before anyone tells me that I'm misintepreting a joke, I would like to assure you that no, I am not. A later chapter is going to pretty much outright say that he was lined up to kill her until he fell in love with her!
Third of all, a guy who is only compelled to not kill someone by how much he likes them and not because murder is wrong. Yeeeees, that sounds like just the right sort of person for Heaven to bring back as a guardian angel.
Fourth of all, Patch has no compunctions at all about murdering his vassal, who he forces to give him the gift of a physical body. Meaning that Patch has been dragging this poor guy around for centuries, using him as a resource for the thing that Patch wants the most, and Patch doesn't hold him in any regard at all. You know, I'll be ranting about this in the later books, but I shall say this - Fitzpatrick, if you seriously think that I'm going to sympathize with Patch over the Nephilim, you are whacked out of your skull.
Fifth of all (and my, this just keeps going on and on, doesn't it?), don't even try to sell me that "You're the most important person to me" bullshit. Don't even. You've already proven that you're fine with treating her like shit. If you want to impress upon us your love for her, Patch, why not start now and back up a few steps like she's asking you to? Or stop stalking her? Or treat her with respect, instead of spewing crude innuendos every other sentence? And if anyone tells me that those things are a part of his charm or that Nora secretly likes him doing those things to her, I will reach through the computer and bitchslap them, I swear to God.
Well, that rant aside, back to sexy time! Where are we? Ah yes, Nora is trying to push Patch away, because his presence upsets her. What, you don't believe me? Here, see for yourself!
"My hands were pressed against his stomach, which was so hard even his skin didn't give. I was keeping a pointless safeguard between us, since not even a towering electrical fence would make me feel secure from him"
ZeldaQueen: Ah yes, you know it's love when he makes you feel like you're in danger.
*a la Gilbert Godfrey* YOU IDIOTS!
Nora tries to get him to back off by telling him "You're impinging on my private space", and he is an asshole and mocks her because, ha ha, she knows big words, isn't it funny? And then... OH JESUS CHRIST, YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS IN FULL!
"I tucked a few stray hairs behind my ears and took one sizable stepsideways, skirting the sink. 'You're crowding me. I need- room.' What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn't be trusted in Patch's presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet ... I wasn't. I tried convincing myself I was staying because I needed answers, but that was only part of it. It was the other part I didn't want to think about. The emotional part. The part that was pointless fighting.
'Are you keeping anything else from me?" I wanted to know.
'I'm keeping a lot of things from you.'
My insides took a steep dive.
'Like?'
'Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you.' Patch braced one hand against the mirror behind me, his weight tipping toward me. 'You have no idea what you do to me'"
ZeldaQueen: Two things there.
First of all, how many times are we going to have Nora repeat how Patch makes her feel so weak and vulnerable and she just feels so
Second of all, read that bit. Take a good, long gawk. When you're done, tell me what that reminds you of.
Where else have we seen Nora say that she ought to be running away, but feels powerless to resist the allure of Patch?
Where else have we seen Patch push her up against a wall and refuse to back up or give her room, despite her clear requests otherwise?
Where else have we seen Nora desperately try to question Patch, only for him to just give her not-answers consisting of extremely inappropriate sexual banter?
*taps chin*
HOW ABOUT CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CHAPTER WHERE PATCH ASSAULTS NORA???
Yeah! Look familiar? That chapter that ought to have been grounds for Patch to be arrested? And yet here we get pretty much the same thing, and it's supposed to be hot and sexy and a sign of their progressing relationship!!!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FITZPATRICK, SEEK THERAPY!!!
I am so very, very tired right now.
And it just. Does not. End! Nora starts gasping and telling him that she needs room. He's all smiles and of course does not do this, because "There's all kinds of right...On the spectrum, we're still in the safe zone". DOES THE PHRASE "NO MEANS NO" MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU, JACKASS?
No, clearly it doesn't! Because even though Nora is trying to get away from him and keeps telling him "I don't want this", he keeps telling her it's perfectly fine, and to relax, and geeeeeehhhhh this is creepy!
At this point, Nora spies a fire alarm and gives serious thought to pulling it. A note to all people reading this - if you ever feel the need to resort to pulling a fire alarm to get someone to stop pawing you up, don't date that person. In any case, Patch figures out what Nora has in mind and tells her not to think about it. She does run for the fire alarm and pulls it, only for it not to move. Oh, surprise! Patch just mindraped her into thinking she did it! How lovely that he has her on such a leash!
Seriously, what was the point of that? That was just like him waving that paintball gun at her! It served no point but to freak her out and show her how powerless she is against him! He could easily have backed away and given her room and, you know, not have caused her to feel so threatened that she seriously considered running for help! Oh no, I forgot, that would mess up his street cred and make him less of a bad boy, respecting his girlfriend's wishes like that. Christ, I hate this book.
Nora shoves Patch and yells at him for the mindrape and while I would applaud this display of sense, it's ruined because she basically words it as "That bastard, how dare he be so hot and get me all horny for him?" In other words, it's just the usual cutesy, fake anger used to show how she has fallen for him, because of course "no" means "yes" and all girls secretly want guys to take advantage of them. *flips the bird*
*reads ahead* *stares* Jesus. Fucking. Christ
"I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the wall. There was hardly any space left between us, just a thin boundary of air, but Patch managed to eliminate it.
'Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me.' His eyes held a lot of depth. 'And I've got it bad for you.' He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my will power to break away"
ZeldaQueen: . . .
He...he just pinned her against the wall and violated her personal space exactly like how he attacked her in the motel.
He outright declared that she was in love with him, without her consent or opinion on the matter.
He kissed her right after she had been dodging him and asking him for room and yelling at him and trying to pull the fire alarm for help. And she is just standing there passively, basically saying that her will is being broken by him and she's lucky she can stop him from kissing her.
Spite fic! Short one!
"As soon as we broke apart, I reached into my pocket. The vial was there, right where I left it after I filched it during my last Biology lab. With Patch stalking me like he was and the police not taking me seriously, I had suspected I'd need a safeguard like this. With one swift movement, I popped the top off of the vial and flung the contents at Patch's face.
'YOU BITCH!' he screamed as he clawed at his eyes and then for me.
I was already toward the door though, taking advantage of his blindness and disorientation. Sulfuric acid. Don't leave home without it"
ZeldaQueen: And yes, I got the idea from To Weave a Lover. I'm pissed and want Patch to die, cut me a break.
No, Nora of course doesn't end up doing anything else to assert herself against Patch, or call him out about that disgusting behavior, or try to escape in any way. Instead, she asked what went down with Dabria. Patch says that he ripped off her wings, which he explains was going to happen to her no matter what. If she tried to go back to Heaven, the avenging angels would have done it to her. If she had continued to wander on Earth, another fallen angel would have done it instead. Nora asks if that's all he did and...oh this is precious, it is. He saw that Dabria has been driven insane by her time on Earth and has ripped off her wings, leaving her undoubtedly pissed as heck, with a personal grudge against Nora, and non of the scruples angels apparently have about using their powers against mortals. And he just let her go, and openly admits that she'll probably show up to attack Nora again. But it's okay! Why?
"'You could take her, Angel,' he said. 'I've seen both of you in action, and my bet's on you. You don't need me for that'"
ZeldaQueen: Yes Patch, you've seen Nora in action, if by that you mean her hiding in her closet, resorting to throwing shoes to ward Dabria off. Shame you missed the rest of the fight, or you'd have seen Dabria blow parts of the house up and set rooms on fire, all while Nora only survives by the skin of her teeth. So yes, I'm sure Nora can totally take a psychotic fallen angel who can mindrape and physically overpower her, who hates her guts, and who can stalk her for all eternity without fear of reprecussion. I'm sure Nora will be fine. After all, she does so well at fending off Patch.
Also, I must ask, what are the angels doing about this? You know, the ones in charge? They just lost their Angel of Death, you know. Aren't they going to, you know, look into it? And if they do, aren't they going to see that a lot of this was Patch's fault, given that he seduced Dabria and used her, which got her to try to win him back? Fitzpatrick has openly admitted that the angels are not happy at all with Patch and are watching for him to do the slightest thing to excuse them sending him to Hell. Isn't corrupting and screwing with the Angel of Death enough to warrant that? Even if one argue that it was Dabria's own fault (as I'm sure folks would), couldn't the angels still argue that Patch is too much trouble to keep around or try to recruit back? Clearly he isn't interested in taking them up on their offer and still wants to be human!
*sigh* So Nora goes into Full Horny Mode and she and Patch start making out. But first, Patch tells delivers a truly terrifying line "'Door's locked,' he said. 'And we have unfinished business'"
ZeldaQueen: Mmm. Sexy.
So they go into full-on make-out mode, with Patch grabbing her hips (because I guess Fitzpatrick thinks that's sexy) and Nora wrapping her legs around his waist, and I'm just skipping it because it's sickening and horrible. Thankfully it doesn't last long. Nora's cell phone rings and she ignores Patch telling her to let it go to voice mail. She has literally forgotten about everything that was going on before she started making out with Patch, and answers the phone thining how "Internally I was screaming with joy". And I'd like to just say that if Fitzpatrick hadn't written this as incredibly squicky as she did, my immediate interpretation of that quote would not have been that Nora was secretly overjoyed for an excuse to break away from Patch.
Anyway, when she answers, it's Vee. Hooo boy. Apparently Vee is still with Elliot and Jules and they've...um...broken into the high school to play hide and seek. Or actually they want to play hide and seek in the high school, but they've broken in and only now realized that it's rather stupid playing with three people, especially since they apparently want teams. So Vee is calling to ask if Nora would care to join them.
Um, folks, I'm kind of baffled at this one. Is high school hide and seek something that a lot of people do? I understand the appeal of playing around inside of a roped-off area or an abandoned building or something, but this is the high school. They spend all week there. It's not even like it's closed for the summer. It's just the weekend. Why would they want to break into there, of all places?
Not to mention that if it's a weekend, wouldn't there be someone there? At my high school, unless it was midnight, there was usually at least one person around. Janitors cleaning up. Teachers grading stuff or finishing something. Band practice. Something! The teachers even told our parents that the students couldn't pull the "I can't do my homework because I left my book at school" excuse because there would almost always be someone to let us in to get our stuff. I can buy that this high school doesn't have club meetings or something, but there aren't even janitors? Really?
And you would think that Vee would think about them not having enough people to play a proper game of hide and seek before they committed breaking in and entering, so that if they couldn't go through with the game, they wouldn't worry about potentially being arrested. Vee is an idiot.
So yeah. Vee says that Elliot has something to add, and hands the phone off to him. Elliot gets on the line and basically tells Nora that if she doesn't come to the high school, he's going to hang Vee. Which, you know, is what he did to his girlfriend. You'd think he'd come up with a less conspicious method, considering that he already was a suspect in one hanging, but whatever. This dude isn't very subtle, if any of you haven't noticed. God almighty. I hate this chapter. This is just one long string of squick, and I want it to die. I am so angry, I need to go and unwind. Have a good night! I'm off to go bang my head against the wall!
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Date: 2011-10-22 01:45 am (UTC)Not only that, but the stalls' doors are about half a foot off the ground or something, so someone can see feet. If someone else happened to be in the bathroom at the time, they could hear something going on, see two pairs of feet in one stall, and there would be authorities getting called, mark my words.
Alternatively, Nora could have tried to crawl out from underneath. Sure, it's slow and awkward and Patch could have grabbed at her, but it's a way out!
Is there anyone in this book who isn't A; a complete and utter scary ass, B; an idiot, or C; both?
I can kinda see the allure of sneaking into a school at night...it looks different, sorta, after dark, it's kinda scary-fun to see a place that you go to nearly every day in broad daylight among a crowd suddenly be empty and dark. But yes, there would definitely be someone in there, and...Vee is just idiotic. Okay? She's an idiot.
In fact...Spitefic!
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It was over. I could barely remember how it had all gone down; it all went by so fast. But Patch was gone, those two idiots who went to school with Vee were arrested (and I had made sure to tell the cops about them threatening me earlier, and threatening to hang Vee just tonight). Vee and I were now being driven home by one of the police officers right now. He had said it would be a bad idea to just let us walk home, and when Vee said her mom was asleep and she just couldn't wake her up to come get her, he told us that he'd take us himself.
"They just seemed so nice, you know?" Vee was saying, sitting beside me in the backseat. I barely looked at her, instead rolling my eyes at her idiotic comment. Yes, a guy who assaulted and threatened us was nice.
Vee must have known what I was thinking because she immediately added "I mean, I didn't think they had it in them. They were just so hot and--"
"Excuse me?!" I snapped, whipping my head around to glare at her. I could see the policeman raise his eyebrows in the rear-view mirror, but I paid it no mind. "You're telling me that you didn't think those two would ever really hurt us because they were hot? Is that why you kept pushing me at Patch, too? Because he was so attractive, he couldn't possibly be a murderer, or a rapist, or both?"
"No-ra," Vee said, sighing as if I were the dumb one. "You ever see those cop shows? The bad guys are all ugly, you can totally tell and--"
"No," I snapped again. "No, you can't. Patch was a creep, so were those guys, and...you had just kept pushing me at patch, you kept insisting we'd make a good couple, you didn't think there was anything wrong with the guy who threatened to hang you...are you high or something? Because the only reason I can believe you have such a lapse in judgement for so long is if you were perpetually high!"
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Date: 2011-10-22 01:46 am (UTC)Vee looked a little surprised. "Nora! But...but he just..." Finally, she was at a loss for words. Wonder how long that would last.
"And you know something else? Every time I called you or you called me and I told you how scared I was, how I hated these guys, how we should stay away? You just laughed it off, belittled my fears, and told me they were fine to hang out with. What the hell is wrong with you, Vee? Nevermind, I think I know: you're a shallow idiot who has a brain the size of a thimble and you're an awful,s elfish girl who only thinks of herself." We pulled up in front of her house just then. Apparently her mom wasn't really asleep since she ran out to the porch the second she saw the red and blue lights of the squad car. I could see her confused and angry glare at Vee from here. Vee herself wasn't looking at her; just at me. She looked shocked, angry, confused...I could see a faint quiver of her bottom lip.
Her door opened and the policeman gently pulled on her shoulder, telling her he'd walk her to her mom. As Vee shakily unbuckled her seatbelt and let the cop escort her, I leaned over and shouted out the open window. "This friendship is over, Vee! Tomorrow, we are not sitting next to each other, we are not talking in the hall or being partnered up in class! I never want to speak to or even look at you again!"
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Date: 2011-10-22 08:39 pm (UTC)And yeah, no, everyone's creepy and stupid in this story. -_- And they all get worse in the sequel.
I guess. I didn't even get the feeling that it was particularly dark or anything, though. Fitzpatrick really needs to specify things more, in regards to her writing.
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Date: 2011-10-23 04:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-22 02:43 am (UTC)Anyway, when she answers, it's Vee. Hooo boy. Apparently Vee is still with Elliot and Jules and they've...um...broken into the high school to play hide and seek. Or actually they want to play hide and seek in the high school, but they've broken in and only now realized that it's rather stupid playing with three people, especially since they apparently want teams. So Vee is calling to ask if Nora would care to join them.
....say what?
I don't even know. Don't. Even. Know.
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Date: 2011-10-22 08:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-22 03:24 am (UTC)Let's be honest, Nora. You've got it bad for me.' His eyes held a lot of depth. 'And I've got it bad for you.' He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my will power to break away"
"Really?" Said a feminine voice with a thick Brittish accent. "Last I looked you were the one with the mind control."
The voice was coming from a short blonde woman who ad seemingly appeared behind Patch. She was wearing a small black dress that hugged her figure and caused Nora's envy to flair.
"What's the matter sweetie? Afraid that I might take your man for all eternity?" The woman looked at them revealing that she had bright red eyes. "Well, on second thought, that might be a valid concern in this case. I've never had fallen angel before and Pip could use a punching bag." She stepped toward Patch, her smile revealing a fanged mouth with too many sharp teeth. "Don't worry, I won't eat the bitch. She wouldn't be much use to me anyway." The last thing Nora saw before passing out was the woman's arm tun into a mass of shadow.
Nora was latter found dead of a broken neck. No trace of Patch was ever found.
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Date: 2011-10-22 10:23 pm (UTC)Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what fandom would that woman be from? ^^;
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Date: 2011-10-23 02:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-25 08:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-22 04:03 am (UTC)And hide and seek? At the school? I think the abusive relationship vibes blew my mind so the only thing I can comprehend is how stupid that is.
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Date: 2011-10-22 04:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-22 04:57 am (UTC)Playing hide and seek in a school? I would laugh so hard if Elliot and Jules weren't so fucking creepy.
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Date: 2011-10-22 08:09 am (UTC)I would've written a spitefic where Nora head-butts Patch and kicks his groin, but Patch can't feel a thing so that wouldn't help Nora one bit. Bah.
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Date: 2011-10-22 08:00 pm (UTC)There is something wrong with the author. There has to be. This isn't just subtext or Unfortunate Implications - she's fully aware of the sort of thing Patch could and clearly wants to do to Nora, and she's writing it clearly into her books because she thinks it's sexy. How can anyone in their right minds not only think it's cute but also think that it's a sign of true love?
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Date: 2011-10-23 04:47 am (UTC)*Screams into pillow*
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, MS. FITZPATRICK? This isn't subtext, this is WRITING A GODDAMN MURDEROUS SOCIOPATH AS A LOVE INTEREST!
I just... This is wrong on so many, many levels. And... augh! Every character in this book is saying Patch is bad news, including Patch himself, why the hell is she bent on making this a romance novel?
And... Hide and seek, with three people who are all teens?
... Anyone else not seeing the appeal of this? I mean, I guess if there was a big group it could be fun, like if you were playing it outside at night with a whole party, but... three people?
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Date: 2011-10-23 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-23 04:49 pm (UTC)*flatly* You mean, if you hadn’t fallen, you wouldn’t have met her, sexually harassed her, manhandled her, manipulated her mind, and tried to kill her. Oh, yes, how dreamy.
/He then tells Nora that she's from a Nephilim on her dad's side,/
Which is why he “needs” to kill her. Umm, Patch, you do realize that Nora probably isn’t Chauncey’s only descendant, right? Given that he lived centuries ago, chances are that there are quite a number of other people that you could go after (not saying that you should, but just to point that out). I know that this idiocy isn’t exclusive to this book; there are plenty of other books and movies where a person finds out that they are the last remaining descendant of someone who lived ages ago, even though simple math and probability would make that extremely unlikely. Even if that long-dead person had only two kids, there were still be a lot of descendants running around centuries later, unless something drastic happened, like plague, warfare, infertility, or something equally devastating to the family tree.
/A later chapter is going to pretty much outright say that he was lined up to kill her until he fell in love with her!/
So romantic. *rolls eyes* I’ve actually read comments by fans who actually buy this garbage. That everything that Patch did up until now is fine because now he’s in love with Nora and doesn’t want to kill her anymore. Uh, guys, that doesn’t change the fact that *he was all set and ready to kill her!* How is it romantic in any way for a guy to say, “Oh, yeah, I was totally planning to brutally murder you, but then I changed my mind because I love you now?” He was *planning to kill her!* He outright admits it! Why doesn’t Nora care? Why don’t the *fans* care?
/Fifth of all (and my, this just keeps going on and on, doesn't it?), don't even try to sell me that "You're the most important person to me" bullshit. Don't even. You've already proven that you're fine with treating her like shit. If you want to impress upon us your love for her, Patch, why not start now and back up a few steps like she's asking you to? Or stop stalking her? Or treat her with respect, instead of spewing crude innuendos every other sentence?/
Patch, *Edward Cullen* didn’t convince us of his pure and wonderful love for Bella Swan when he told her that “you are the most important person to me.” And that was coming from a guy who, while abusive and controlling, didn’t sexually harass his girlfriend, brainwash her, and openly assault her! You’ve done all of these terrible things to Nora and now you (and your author) expect us to believe that you’re in love with her? Please, you love her as much as Jack the Ripper loved Mary Jane Kelly.
/FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, FITZPATRICK, SEEK THERAPY!!!/
Oh, no, Zelda Queen, therapy is for losers! Therapists are just meddling busybodies who poke and pry and have ulterior motives! Clearly, Fitzpatrick/Nora is fit as a fiddle and doesn’t have any issues about fantasies concerning an abusive stalker assaulting her! What would she need a psychiatrist? *sarcasm*
As for the disgusting scene where Patch keeps insisting that Nora’s “no” means “yes” and arrogantly tells her that he knows better than she does about how *she* feels…all I’ve got to say about that is thank you so much for the mini-spitefic. It may have been short, but it was much appreciated.
/So they go into full-on make-out mode,/
Nora: You assaulted me, sexually harassed me, manipulated me, ignored me when I told you to stop, and *tried to kill me.* Let’s make out!
*despairs for humanity*
/Elliot gets on the line and basically tells Nora that if she doesn't come to the high school, he's going to hang Vee./
I’m sorry, are we supposed to be upset? I know that it’s awful, I know that I shouldn’t be rooting for the bad guy, but Vee has been so selfish, obnoxious, and truly Too Dumb to Live that I can’t help but cheer for Elliot here. If he does kill her, all that will be running through my mind will be, "Ding dong, the witch is dead" from "The Wizard of Oz."
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Date: 2011-10-23 06:35 pm (UTC)Patch, *Edward Cullen* didn’t convince us of his pure and wonderful love for Bella Swan when he told her that “you are the most important person to me.” And that was coming from a guy who, while abusive and controlling, didn’t sexually harass his girlfriend, brainwash her, and openly assault her! You’ve done all of these terrible things to Nora and now you (and your author) expect us to believe that you’re in love with her? Please, you love her as much as Jack the Ripper loved Mary Jane Kelly.
I wouldn't call it love, but she's definitely "most important" in that he's busy obsessing over, stalking and mind-raping her. It's clear its himself first, but he DOES think something of Nora... Probably how he's STILL going to brutally murder her once he gets bored of the mind-rape.
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Date: 2011-10-23 11:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-24 12:50 am (UTC)And yet, you just can't look away, can you? If for no other reason than being able to justify to the Barnes and Noble clerk why you started punching books... Though, I swear, if she happened to be doing a book signing and I wandered into the bookstore then, I would wait in line to ask her what the hell she was thinking writing a sociopath. I'd probably get thrown out of the bookstore. And honestly, I think it would be worth it.
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Date: 2011-10-25 04:14 pm (UTC)If anything, I just want her to feel as bad as we did reading this crap.
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Date: 2011-11-07 12:33 pm (UTC)That said, I still can't believe that the stupid fangirls who read these books actually fall for that 'bad boy' crap. Seriously, why do these Suethors think this is what girls seek in a guy, an arrogant and dangerous douchebag who should be locked in a facility that's a cross between the prison out of Oz and a sex dungeon :D Does Fitzpatrick and all the Suethors out there secretly fantasise about being in a relationship where they're constantly living in fear and can only end in filing a police report?
Also, I feel Fitzpatrick's writing just regresses with each chapter, like she just said 'fuck it' and wrote the rest on the fly. Totally shoddy >.<
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Date: 2011-11-19 03:02 am (UTC)Oz? Patch wishes. If only he were as cool and horrifying complex and pitiable as Verne Schillenger.
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Date: 2011-11-23 10:53 pm (UTC)You mean the comic? It's a panel from Watchmen. XD
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Date: 2011-11-23 11:02 pm (UTC)No, I mean the prison from the HBO show that winki was referring to. Any of those characters are infinitely more horrifying and scary and complex and pitiable than this two-dimensional asshat. If this were the real world, Patch would probably end up there, where he'd be forced to cross-dress and become somebody's girlfriend since he's so pretty. Come to think of it, that would be a very satisfying crossover: Nora gets Patch arrested for, well, everything, and he goes to Oz and gets some sweaty man loving from J. Johah Jameson and Mr. Eko.
Even though I'm late to the party: Spitefic time
Date: 2012-02-05 08:47 pm (UTC)"Vee? What's wrong," Nora asked before remembering Elliot and Jules, "Vee are you safe? Did Elliot and Jules do something? I told you they were dang-"
"Elliot and Jules are dead Nora."
Nora was struck dumb, shock passing through her system. How did it happen? Was it Dabria?
"You were right Nora. Angels do exist. The Angels came for us Nora. They got Elliot and Jules." Vee droned out.
She must of been in shock, Nora thought.
"Vee where are you now? Where are you calling from."
"Outside the theater where you are."
Nora was about to express her relief, and Patch had finally given her some room, seemingly interested in what was going on, when it hit her.
"Vee how did you know I was at the theater?"
"I didn't. But the Angels did. They got me to you see."
Nora didn't know what to think, it was all to much for her. Vee continued talking.
"They took what was left of my conciousness and my phone and called you when they arrived outside the theater. I think they're just doing it to scare you."
Just then the lights started flickering.
Vee spoke one last time, "They're coming now Nora. Coming for you and Patch."
The lights went out.
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Date: 2013-09-02 05:06 am (UTC)Too. Dumb. To. Live.
It has to be an intentional sacrifice. Simply killing you won't do it
If that's the case, then why did he already want to kill her at least twice, without her wanting to sacrifice herself? That would accomplish nothing for him - even worse, it would get him stuck without a way to become human if Nora's the only one to fulfill his requirements. At the very least it would set him back quite a bit, because he'd need to track down and manipulate other female descendants of Chauncey.
Oh, and even better (worse?), Fitzpatrick has told her fans that Patch knows human personalities to a T. That he understands human nature inside and out.
No no no. He knows how to manipulate people perfectly. Nora needs to sacrifice herself willingly. Of course there's no possibility that he'll just manipulate her into letting him kill her.
I'm not going to kill you, Nora. I don't kill people who are important to me. And you top the list.
He doesn't kill people who are important to him? So what, the rest are fair game?
OH FUCK NO THIS IS NOT GOING THERE.
He leaned into me and put his mouth on mine. A lot of him was on me, actually. We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my will power to break away
FUCK NO IT IS GOING THERE.
So they go into full-on make-out mode
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
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Date: 2013-09-02 05:08 am (UTC)